Our story begins in July 2015, when the Ethereum project released the genesis block, the very first block of the ether blockchain. Some people in our team followed the idea of Ethereum for some time already, and it didn’t take long until the...
Building websites today is usually a totally bloated and inefficient process: First, there is a designer who creates layouts and designs in photoshop. After that, the designs are iterated together with clients or teams. Making changes to the overall...
At Nodecamp 2011, we wanted to present a live tracker built with Node.js. After seeing the popular , I was wondering why not create something like that with live data. The appeal of watching the temporal dynamics within such a visualisation is...
There is a potential side-effect of the new facebook "like" button, which has currently not reached public awareness, but it probably should. It starts when you leave the facebook website. I usually don’t log out, my friends don’t log out, and in...
So we've seen a couple of 2010 lists lately, but from a technical perspective, we think they were missing some important stuff. The following list is a snapshot of heated-up discussions in our company about things that could shake up the web...
Why do I need CAPTCHAs? As soon as your web project becomes bigger you will notice that bots are trying to spam your blog and to fake user inputs. When I created a blog with Django for a website with about 60.000 unique users per day I had to delete...
